DSOG: TotalBiscuit interviewed by the BBC

[shrekfan246]

Well, primarily, people want to argue. They want a fight, and they want to win the fight. Usually they consider themselves the winner before the fight has even begun, and get manifestly more aggrieved and aggressive if that fact is not conceded with due haste. The medium has some inherent issues that complicate communication, and if you're not aware of them and showing up to interactions prepared to mitigate them, you're going to have a bad time.

I wish I were a smarter person so that I could theorize how to change the level of discourse on the internet for the better.

But then-

And I don't consider anyone as being "above attack", but I'm also not enthused about making cases for why I should be allowed to "attack" people in the first place.

-acknowledging the hypocrisy of my own statement given the harshness of what I said earlier in this thread, I feel like it would be better if we could figure out as a society how to better approach criticizing people without making them feel "attacked" to begin with.

I'm not smart enough to figure that out either, though, given the prevalence of people who take offense when you criticize something they merely like.

So hey, maybe I'll just go back to not saying anything at all. Socially awkward nerd gonna soawk.